literalness

• “He would often gently deride a certain American literalness that I do possess – a need to ask questions all the damn time, and analyse situations a little too much.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Special Relationship

• “His stated purpose is to emphasize the relation of words to their objects, that is, the literalness of the "real language of men.”

  Wordsworth’s Balladry: Real Men Wanted

• “Biblical "literalness" consists in interpreting the Bible contextually, and straightforwardly where the context allows.”

  Darwin "Replaced God?"

• “Some of his devotees were depressed by the literalness of the subject matter, which is a quasi-autobiographical account of being 13 years old and an inmate in a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai.”

  The Catastrophist

• “But literalness gave rise to some fine ideas, like casting Gabriel Lautaro Osuna, a flamenco singer, as Mario's father.”

  The Washington Post: Domingo's tenor lifts respectable, but too literal, 'Il Postino' by Daniel Catán

• “YOu really need help — this is literalness to a pathological level.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Feel the Kausmentum

• “The life and sayings of Johnson were so replete with ironies that perhaps it is no surprise to find literalness exacting its effect over the course of time.”

  Demons and Dictionaries

• “Jesus of Nazareth is the myth reduced to literalness.”

  Lance Mannion:

• “This is suggested with jarring literalness in the precise architectural renderings on their painted surfaces.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Whirl of Frenetic Markings and Vestigial Imagery

• “There is also the fact that people often take scripture with an extreme literalness.”

  Creationists on the Square in Madison, Wisconsin - The Panda's Thumb

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